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2013 MATH IN SOCIETY by David Lippman, comprises a majority of this work, except as noted below. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/.

2011 MARK-RECAPTURE ACTIVITY, originally developed by Holly Gaff (Old Dominion University) and John Jungck (University of Delaware), served as the basis for the content in Section 1.1. Used by permission.

2018 PROBABILITY AND EXPECTED VALUE, or Chapter 3, was written by Glenn Ledder (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), as was Section 7.2 on the Adjusted Winner method of fair division. Used by permission.

2019 ADVANCED HIGH SCHOOL STATISTICS, by David Diez (OpenIntro), Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel (Duke University), Leah Dorazio (San Fransisco University High School), and Christopher D Barr (Varadero Capital), provided much of the content for Chapter 4. Also licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/.

2014 MODELING THE SPREAD OF A DISEASE, by Glenn Ledder and Michelle Homp, originally written as an activity for middle-level students, was adapted for Chapter 8. Most of the content of this chapter appears in the accompanying Math 203 Course Manual.

Though most are from Math in Society, a few of the homework problems included in this text are adapted from exercises found in Excursions in Modern Mathematics, 8th Edition, by Peter Tannenbaum (California State University - Fresno).